Blue Suede Shoes (Live)

Lyrics

[Intro: Emcee & Carl Perkins] Jackson, Tennessee to be with you tonight Back in nineteen hundred and fifty six, fifty-seven, and there abouts He had one of the biggest songs of our time A thing that he wrote and recorded, called "Blue Suede Shoes" Since that time, he's made himself quite famous in this world as one of the greater songwriters in our business As you'll see right here tonight, one of the finest guitar players evеr in this part of the country And above all, I think a perfеct gentleman I want you to make him real welcome Mr. Carl Perkins! Thank you very much, good evening and welcome to the Johnny Cash Show It's a pleasure to be with you and we've kind of feel like you're gonna enjoy yourselves tonight It's our wishes, so have fun and we'll carry on We gonna, kind of, this is what we call the warm-up And as you all know, a little later on we'll start filming Right now I'd like to do a song for you that in nineteen-fifty-six we recorded this one A little slow love ballad that goes like this [Verse 1: Carl Perkins] Well, it's one for the money Two for the show Three to get ready Now go, cat, go But don't you step on my blue suede shoes You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes [Verse 2: Carl Perkins] You can knock me down Step in my face Slander my name All over the place Do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh Baby, lay off of them shoes And don't you step on my blue suede shoes You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes Oh, right [Guitar Solo] [Verse 3: Carl Perkins] Yeah, you can burn my house Steal my car Drink my liquor From an old fruit jar Do anything that you want to do But uh-uh, fellas, lay off of them shoes And don't you step on my blue suede shoes You can do anything but lay off of my cotton-pickin' shoes All, right [Guitar Solo] [Verse 1: Carl Perkins] Yeah, it's one for the money Now, two for the show Three to get ready Now go, cat, go But don't you step on my blue suede shoes Do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes [Outro: Carl Perkins] Yeah Blue, blue, a-blue suede shoes Blue, blue, a-blue suede shoes Blue, blue, blue suede shoes Blue, blue, blue suede shoes Do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes [Spoken Outro: Carl Perkins] Thank you, thank you so very much We had a mic difficulty, didn't we? I thought something was happening